The archives for October, 2007


Ott 19

Sabayon, the genius made in Italy

They are particularly proud of recensire this distro that it represents, creed without refutation topic, a hymn to a type of genius all Italian and to its ability to exceed limits of resources, budget, plan thus succeeding to compete with the colossus (ubuntu, opensuse, debian, red hat…). Its creator Fabio Erculiani is successful to construct to a powerful, stable, rich of equipment software and above all ready system to the use. The installer it is that one of Red Hat (Anaconda), but its high power and versatilità, with to the manager of the Portage packages, come from Gentoo, the distro to which ago reference. The name derives from the famous dessert all Italian, the zabaione, from here also the logo to hen leg form.

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But we proceed with order.

 

Installation:

 

Sabayon has been one of the first installabili live, therefore it maintains the certain advantage of being able to try before choosing. In any case sin from quickly on the desktop it is present the icona of the modified version of Anaconda

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that he will guide the customer through simple chosen (partizionamento of the disc, desktop environment, chosen of the software, configuration customers.) till the completion of the installation.

 

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Ott 18

The great day of Ubuntu 7.10

Finally it is reached the moment of “Gutzy Gibbon” the last one release of the community ubuntu that door with if the last innovationes of the world open source. Between these:

 

  • Displayconfig-gtk, usefullness that allows to shape monitor and card easy video, to set up the resolution, possibility to choose between driver OSS and owner (for the possessory ones of NVIDIA)

  • gThumb 2.10.6, visual display unit images Co possibility to visualize the properties of the image, to add tags and to visualize the present miniature in directory the current without the need to select them all previously.

  • Network Manager 0.6.5, through which it is now possible to save various profiles of net and to recall them when necessary.

  • The new one compiz/fusion installed of default

  • New version of Tracker in substitution of the heaviest Beagle

  • Firefox with plugin finder wizard that an access concurs express with plugin the more municipalities

  • Printing installation and configuration of completely automated

  • support in reading and writing of partitions windows (NTFS)

  • addition of the framework of Apparmor emergency

Ott 18

Ati Xgl Fusion

This guide has been head on notebook a Progress Idea with Ati Radeon 9600 Mobility, RAM 1024 Mb, 3,0 CPU GHz, Motherboard Intel, distro Opensuse 10.3

For cards video Radeon HD it is possible to install driver the 8.41.7 with a solo click here, otherwise that which follows is the procedure for less fortunate.

Prerequisiti for the installation of drivers (the 8.40.4):

  • compat
  • qt3
  • libstdc (plus - devel)
  • compat-libstdc
  • libgcc
  • xorg-x11-libs (plus - devel)
  • Mesa (plus - devel)
  • fontconfig (plus - devel)
  • expat (plus - devel)
  • freetype (plus - devel)
  • zlib (plus - devel)
  • libdrm.

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Ott 13

Opensuse 10.3

The team of openSUSE has officially released version 10,3 the 4 of Ottobre.OpenSUSE is a popular German distribution that Distrowatch.com inserts in “top ten” of the distro better. Remarkable the improvements regarding the version precedence: reduction of the time necessary in order to catch up the shielded one of login graphical; acceleration and simplification of the usefullness of management of the packages; facility of installation of the software with a single clic.

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History of SuSE

The SuSE plan has had beginning in 1992 from the team that distributed the German version of Slackware. It has modified the distribution basing it on RPM, and has added an instrument of installation and called administration YaST. However, YaST originally was software owner and the versions Desktop di SuSE Linux came manifactured and sold in series with an excellent written documentation.
The situation changed after that Novell has acquired SuSE in 2004. With version 9,2, SuSE was released in version agreement of collaboration in matter of interoperabilità between Novell “Enterprise Linux” and Microsoft. Part of such agreement comprised the promise from Microsoft not to cite in judgment the customers of Novell for violation of the licences (Microsoft does not indicate where the code of Linux vìola its licences, but tant'e)
(For further information, to see “Novell - SM Deal”. For further information on the history of SuSE, to see its Wikipedia.)

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Ott 12

GPLv3

Logo di GPLv3

This is the first article of tuxmind.org, site dedicated to the world opensource and its immense possibilities. Thus, in order to try to argue on the philosophy of the free software me it has seemed corrected to begin from the analysis of the General Public License version 3 that of it is nume to protect. There is from saying that the GPLv3 is source of divisions and confronts also sour between favorable (the Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison, Bruce Perens…) which of it emphasize the strong push on the concept of “discapito freedom” to perhaps of some aspects merely prati to us and the contrarys (the same Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond…) that exactly they make lever on such aspects. Certainly it is that it represents important carrying out and at the same time a bet that will be gained if the number of plans that will join to you turns out elevated. Own in virtue of this marks you it link the http://gpl3.palamida.com:8080/index.jsp in which the course of the number of the software can itself be observed that they decide to pass to GPLv3. Useful others link of deepening: http://gplv3.fsf.org/ - http://tinyurl.com/2mc3zd - www.novell.com/linux/microsoft.